Emflix – Part 18 – Subgenres – Documentary

Here are my subgenres for said category with asterisks for ones I’ll be discussing below

African-American Documentaries

Biographical Documentaries

Crime Documentaries

Faith and Spirituality Documentaries

Foreign Documentaries

Historical Documentaries

Indie Documentaries

Military Documentaries

Mockumentaries

Musical Documentaries*

Political Documentaries

Science and Nature Documentaries

Social and Cultural Documentaries

Sports Documentaries

Musical Documentaries

On the Netflix listing, this is called ‘Rockumentaries’. I changed it to ‘Musical Documentaries’ because there were a bunch of films under this subGenre which aren’t documenting rock music but rather, jazz, hip-hop, etc. I figured ‘Musical Documentaries’ would cover all those bases.

As per Disney/Nickelodeon in ‘Children and Family‘ I didn’t consider the television network to be a genre, that’s descriptive metadata, not genre/form

Miscellaneous Documentaries

I just didn’t like this category. It’s useless, it says, “well it’s a documentary, but doesn’t fit into any other category”. Frankly, any time I encountered it in the Netflix database, I found the film was a decent enough fit with one of the existing categories as to render this catch-all moot.